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I didn't notice we were green PM. Guess someone put in a call."mass production"
Timeline is unchanged. Starting mid 2023.
Come on now. Easy retort. How can you live with yourself driving a (fill in the VW, BMW, Porsche, Audi, Mercedes et al vehicle of choice) after they experimented on humans and THEN emissions cheated knowing their cars don’t just pollute the planet but prematurely kill people? How can you drive a GM after they knew their cars killed people just by having too many bobbles on the key chain and they had to be legally forced to recall them for a $300 repair? How could you drive - it’s literally endless.Back in the early '50's when the first VW shipments got to the UK, 90% of the cars were vandalised before they got to the dealership, such was the anti German feeling because of what the Nazi's had done a few years earlier.
I'm sincerely hoping people don't start taking it out on Tesla's. I've already had one leary comment at a charging point a few days ago about how can you live with yourself driving that, knowing who owns the company! Never had anyone even mention Elon before to me locally, but he's getting reported on our news channels now, generally described as a "controversial figure" or similar.
One of the best ideas I've seen on this forum! They could leave off any Tesla branding so as not to ruffle any feathers.What if Tesla increased their volume of Tesla connectors (for the car) and sold them for so much less than the CCS manufacturers that Legacy OEM's could not pass up significant savings when designing the interface for their cars?
Better yet, what if one or more stand-alone OEM suppliers were licensed by Tesla to make the connector, so the OEM doesn't have to purchase it from Tesla directly?
Yeah, well, I didn't think back in 2017/2018 the CEO and co-founder of Tesla would be buying a social media platform. I would have thought that even by today he would still be focused on expanding Tesla's growth and making an even bigger name for himself in the renewable transition. Looks like he made his name in something else now...
I was just going to post something similar. I too have gained a new, more positive outlook on FSD beta (bFSD). I've previously said that in its current form it has zero utility. Yesterday changed my mind.I am far from a ML expert, but thought I'd share my newfound perspective on bFSD- turning more bullish :
I've been somewhat critical of the progress of bFSD for awhile now. It requires a considerable amount of interventions for most of my suburb and city commutes around Southern California. It doesn't drive as "good" as I do for many of the maneuvers. Honestly, it often embarrasses me when interacting with other vehicles. It still exhibits random phantom braking and often brakes far more abruptly and less smoothly than me. I can go on, but you get the point. My disappointment is primarily with the gap between what I want it to do (end state) and what it really does (capability today).
I'm beginning to think of it differently now. I think seeing the addition of the occupancy network gave me new insight. While Tesla has ultimately been working on giving me what I want (end state)...tactically, they've been working more on the building blocks that will ensure their ability to eventually fully solve the problem. They've been adding new NN components like Birds-eye 3D space and then the occupancy network, etc. Each of these new approaches allowing better training to solve problems that have been elusive before. The current capability of bFSD is more a testament that the building blocks are approaching "good enough". I suspect many of the things I want bFSD to do better, Tesla has confidence (or even knowledge) that they have the correct building blocks to allow iterate training to ultimately improve and master, so they turn their attention on the next problem to ensure it's solvable. I feel like their energy hasn't been to iterate the current NN to be the best it can be, rather iterate enough to highlight the next new building block required. It feels like the ratio of energy used for seeking new building blocks vs iterating the current ones is shifting towards iteration and that's when we can start to see things improve quickly.
Disagree....feathers definitely need ruffling.They could leave off any Tesla branding. so as not to ruffle any feathers.
Wait are you saying CT run rate is not 250k/year on day one of production?"mass production"
Timeline is unchanged. Starting mid 2023.
This was being used before Elon took over. Seemed like a good feature to fact check things.With this new “Context” feature, Elon is setting up Twitter as a tool to fight FUD on all topics globally. Huge benefit to Tesla is implied.
Sad that you’re not a global trade czar. Trade barriers end out harming the imposers more than they do the imposee. They’re an easy sell to jingoists and populists.
Whilst I find the whole colony on Mars thing immensely interesting as an engineering challenge, I just don't really get it. The place is dead and can only sustain life lived in a sealed bubble. You can't terraform it either as its in the wrong place, and it has no active core so any atmosphere you did create will just drift off and it'll end up back as a dead planet! Happy to be told why I'm really wrong on that one, maybe via pm as this is off topic!Then you don't understand Elon Musk's ultimate goal in life.
His true end goal is to build a colony on Mars, and everything he does is ultimately aimed at that goal.
Tesla is about renewable energy and autonomous transportation (for Mars). SpaceX is about affordable space travel (and regular flights to Mars) plus planetary internet and communications (Starlink on Mars). Boring is about tunneling underground (which will likely be how the Mars transportation infrastructure is constructed from the very start). And Twitter, or the X app, the "everything" app, is ultimately about a social utility to enable a new society on Mars to establish easily. Banking, communication, social media, video, chat and calling, these are all things the new Twitter will very likely attempt to integrate. If Elon is successful then Twitter could compete with YouTube, Amazon, Google search and maps, Facebook, telecommunications, etc.
Tesla is only one piece of Elon's grand master plan, life on Mars, and wanting him to focus ONLY on Tesla is, to be blunt, foolish. He will never do that, it's not what he is doing here.
I had the privilege of sitting on the AB of a software logistics company for a few years. Learned a lot that I wish was more common knowledge with our politicians (and other countries politicians).
Elon's behavior has also eclipsed the once stellar Tesla brand. Instead of conjuring the image of high tech electric vehicles, Tesla is now about Elon and his antics. Many friends (including my wife) will not buy a Tesla any longer.It's a pretty sound theory that the CEO selling large amounts of shares to buy an unrelated company and Tweeting what many would consider rather questionable things could cause investors to lose confidence. That could lead to selling and/or reluctance to buy. I'm an example of both where in the past I would have been buying a dip aggressively. I know I'm not alone in this.
However (I never meant to write that word after the above sentence, but)....Listen, if you’re going to go full on Drama Queen as least give us some advanced warning.
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This is my go to argument. "I'll buy some other EV aside from Tesla!"Come on now. Easy retort. How can you live with yourself driving a (fill in the VW, BMW, Porsche, Audi, Mercedes et al vehicle of choice) after they experimented on humans and THEN emissions cheated knowing their cars don’t just pollute the planet but prematurely kill people? How can you drive a GM after they knew their cars killed people just by having too many bobbles on the key chain and they had to be legally forced to recall them for a $300 repair? How could you drive - it’s literally endless.
The bickering fuels our gains!